Customising the Navigation

To change your site navigation you will need create a ‘Custom Menu’.

The setting for this is in ‘Appearance’, ‘Menus’.

Appearance, Menus

I suggest you name your Custom Menu ‘Menu1’.

Custom Menu2

You can add Pages, Posts, Custom Links or Categories to your menu.

However, I suggest you don’t add Posts to your menu, else you are likely to get confused between Pages and Posts – use Categories instead if you are using Posts.

The custom menu of this site is shown below, you can see it uses only ‘Custom Links’ and ‘Pages’. 

Custom Link 3

Where a link is indented it indicates that it is a submenu of the main link.

In this menu ‘Custom Links’ are used as headings by entering a ‘#’ character rather that a valid URL.

Custom Menu hash link

Categories aren’t used in this site navigation because the content will not regularly change – and therefore it does not need to be a blog.

If I was creating a site with four blog areas, I would add Categories to the menu.

In the example below each ‘Category’ would present a different blog – each showing the latest post first.

Custom Menu5

 

Menu Settings

In the Menu Settings, set the ‘Display Location’ as ‘Primary Menu’. (Note you will need do this each time you choose a different template).

I suggest you do not select ‘Automatically add new top-level pages to this menu – as this makes managing the menu confusing.

Remember to ‘Save Menu’ after making changes.